Meandering here and there . . .

"Contrary to what most people think, making a decision is one of the easiest decisions in the world, as is more than proved by the fact that we make decision upon decision throughout the day, there, however, we run straight into the heart of the matter, for these decisions always come to us afterward with their particular little problems, or, to make ourselves quite clear, with their rough edges needing to be smoothed, the first of these problems being our capacity for sticking to a decision and the second our willingness to follow it through."- José Saramago

"As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished."- José Saramago

"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."- José Saramago

"Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts."- José Saramago

"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are."- José Saramago